CLASSICAL FIGURES IN MODERN LIFE Kyiv-based artist Alexey Kondakov uses surrealistic documentary photography to superimpose figures from classical artwork into everyday scenes of modern life. He is renowned for his Photoshopped collage series in which Kyiv, Ukraine served as the backdrop for characters from old world masterpieces. The artist merges the past and the present, […]
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WHIMSICAL SCENES Marie Debré Chapuis is a French illustrator and art director based in Paris. She specializes in fashion and beauty. She uses various techniques to create her nature-inspired illustrations, including ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil, as well as digital approaches. She also created a series of animated illustration featuring whimsical scenes. [Source: Atelier 22 / […]
A COSMOPOLITAN ART LANGUAGE Ying Wei: “I have been focused on painting art, film and television animation, digital imaging, visual creativity and the creation of new media and cultural exploration. Interdisciplinary knowledge structure and creative accumulation, formed my unique creative thinking and work patterns. As a Chinese, I hope to create a new, cosmopolitan art […]
THE DREAM-LIKE OF CREATURES Kane Kokaris is an Australian artist and amateur paleontologist from Gold Coast, Australia. His paintings are imaginative, stylised and often dark. Influences vary from nature and wildlife, to tattoo culture. He looks to partially tell a story within each composition, giving creatures a dream-like world of their own. Although most tales […]
HYBRID COLLAGE Guillaume Maraval: “My work is an incongruous mix of hybrid collages, surrealist shifts between contemporary and retro styles, addressing the casual vanity of the passing of time, often around female figures, animal forms, and religious symbols. Borrowing from baroque or vintage aesthetics, this work stages and questions with irony individual identities in the […]
A VISUAL RABBIT HOLE OF WHIMSY The photography of Victoria Audouard has the effect of lulling you deeper and deeper into a visual rabbit hole of whimsy. The aesthetic she explores in much of her work captures the essence of a series of fairy tales all her own. As a native of France she combines […]
